Mayoral hopeful John Catsimatidis, who has “a very important press conference” later today, dismissed rival Joe Lhota‘s various endorsements yesterday, and further insinuated that Minority Leader Jimmy Oddo is trying to deliver City Hall to Council Speaker Christine Quinn by backing Mr. Lhota. “It would be easier for Quinn to beat Lhota than to beat me,” he argued. “So I’m not sure he’s acting in the best interests of the Republican Party.”

Another mayoral hopeful, Comptroller John Liu, is hitting the radio waves with ads in Spanish, Creole, Russian and English. “In the fight to take back our city, consider this the first blow,” the English, “African-American” ad narrates. “Because after 12 years of edicts from City Hall, John Liu is going to start a dialogue with every corner of the city. Because he’s not going to be the mayor of the 1 percent, but of the 100 percent.”

Yesterday evening, Politicker visited Mr. Liu’s stop-and-frisk forum in the basement of a Bed-Stuy church and ran into Brooklyn district attorney candidate, Abe George, who touted his presence at the event. “I am the only D.A candidate at this forum and all should have been in attendance,” Mr. George said. “Stop-and-frisk is one of the most important issues facing the city. We need to reform its practice to end racial profiling. As the chief law enforcement officer of the county, it is my belief that the district attorney should protect its citizens against unlawful police conduct.”

Another Brooklyn D.A. candidate, Ken Thompson, blasted incumbent Joe Hynes over yesterday’s front-pageNew York Times story on one of his cases. “The people of Brooklyn deserve a DA who will insist from Day 1 that every case is investigated and prosecuted fairly and with integrity—and not just in an election year, because the legitimacy of the criminal justice system is at stake. DA Hynes must explain what he knew and when he knew it, why he authorized immunity for the man now believed to have framed Mr. Ranta, and why his office waited so long to investigate a case that was so flawed from the very beginning,” he said in a statement.

Mr. George is also set to have Yiddish-language Passover ads run this weekend, as are a number of other candidates. Flipping through the Queens Jewish Link‘s pages, we found several such ads and included the best two below. Political operative Michael Fragin further pointed us to the Link‘s profile of long-shot Democratic mayoral candidate Erick Salgado. “I am the man who is going to understand the rabbis, the priests, the pastors, because I have been on both sides of the aisle,” Mr. Salgdo declared in the piece.